Monthly Archives: October 2007

Venice and Dhaka: Canaries in the Climate Change Coal Mine

October 29, 2007 – 7:22 pm

Traveling to the Maldives a few weeks ago, I was thinking about possible climate change mitigation efforts there. If the sea level rises even a matter of inches, there will be a dramatic effect on some of the low-lying islands in the Maldives — many of which are essentially glorified sandbars or coral atolls barely [...]

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DRM disappears, my money quickly follows

October 15, 2007 – 7:33 pm

I’ve been on a digital music buying spree this week — purchasing and downloading three new albums online. Despite being a voracious consumer of new music, mostly from mp3 blogs that highlight and share new tracks, I have never purchased music from the iTunes store. And I still haven’t — I purchased two albums from [...]

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P2P lending org Kiva’s background and future

October 8, 2007 – 3:36 pm

Excellent read for those interested in social entrepreneurship: Kiva co-founder Matt Flannery discusses the first three years of Kiva and the pioneering of the person-to-person lending field in an in-depth article from new MIT journal Innovations.
What makes this case study interesting is not just that it is penned by the entrepreneur himself, but that [...]

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